Commonwealth Ex Rel. Buell v. Buell

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

In this contest between divorced parents for the custody of their 6-year-old son the court continued cus tody in the Family and Child Service, a social service agency, of Erie, where the child originally had been placed by the father. The parties were married in 1950; the child was born on December 12, 1951. The separation occurred on November 1, 1953, when the relatrix left the marital home and went to New York with the intention of making her home there with her sister. Although she left the boy with her husband in Erie, she is not to be charged with abandonment of the…